Read the States at the Greece Public library 50 State Booklist
A popular activity is to "travel" across a map of the U.S. by reading a book that takes place in each of the states. Below is a list that will help you get started on your journey! This list spans both fiction and non- fiction.
This is not a required list but only a guide if you choose to read by state.
Alabama o Picture Book of Rosa Parks by David Adler o Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Curtis o Run Away Home by Patricia McKissack o Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph by Katharine E. Wilkie o Alaska o Kiana's Iditarod by Shelley Gill o Williwaw by Tom Bodett o Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George o Child of the Wolves by Elizabeth Hall o Call of the Wild by Jack London o Gentle Ben by Walt Morey o The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto by Natalie Standiford o Arizona o Saguaro Cactus by Paul Fleisher o Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles o Tarantula Shoes by Tom Birdseye o Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry o As the Crow Flies by Elizabeth Winthrop o Arkansas o Bill Clinton: President of the 90’s by Robert Cwiklik o Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene o Buckaroo by Betty Traylor o Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine by Eileen Lucas o Falling From Grace by Ann McNichols
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o Gravy on a Bucket Lid by Eddie Bowman o Only the Names Remain: The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears by Alex W. Bealer o California o Cat Running by Zilpha Keatley Snyder o Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell o Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman o The Journal of Ben Uchida by Barry Denenberg o Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret o Annie's Promise by Sonia Levitin o Dragonwings by Laurence Yep o Smoky Night by Eve Bunting o Working Cotton by Sherley Williams o Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco o Colorado o Rocky Mountain National Park by Ruth Radlauer o Face to Face by Marion Dane Bauer o Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Arizona by Caroline Arnold o Bearstone by Will Hobbs o The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr o Connecticut o Secret of the Sachem's Tree by F. N. Monjo o Windcatcher by Avi o 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola o The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare o The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh o From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg o McBroom Tells the Truth by Sid Fleishman o Delaware o Red Bird by Barbara Mitchell o Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse o A Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter o As the Crow Flies by Elizabeth Winthrop o District of Columbia o The Wall by Eve Bunting o Nightwalkers by Judy K. Morris o Florida o Donald and the Fish That Walked by Edward R. Ricciuti o Panther Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner o Bigmama's by Donald Crews
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o Shortcut by Donald Crews o Sam the Sea Cow by Francine Jacobs o Stealing Home by Mary Stolz o Sunken Treasure by Gail Gibbons o Michael Graves by Eric Kudalis o Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo o Georgia o Red Cap by G. Clifton Wisler o Turn Homeward Hannalee by Patricia Beatty o Greg Maddux, Ace by John Torres o Herschel Walker by Jim Aenagh o Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch o Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco o The PeeWee Jubilee by Judy Delton o Only the Names Remain: the Cherokee and the Trail of Tears by Alex W. Bealer o Hawaii o Pearl Harbor by Deborah Hopkinson o Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury o The Broccoli Tapes by Jan Slepian o The Story of the U.S.S. Arizona by Conrad Stein o The Last Princess: The story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'i by Fay Stanley o Idaho o West to a Land of Plenty by Jim Murphy o Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech o The Case of the Missing Cutthroats: An Eco Mystery by Jean Craighead George o The Eagle and the River by Charles Craighead o Jenny of the Tetons by Kristiana Gregory o Never Cry “Arp!” and Other Great Adventures by Patrick F. McManus o Illinois o Christmas Blizzard by Helen Ketteman o A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck o Lincoln, a Photo Biography by Russell Freedman o Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt o The Great Fire by Jim Murphy o Oprah Winfrey: Television Star by Steven Otfinoski o Ruth Law Thrills a Nation by Don Brown o Michael Jordan: Star Guard by Ron Knapp o Indiana o Running out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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o Julie Meyer by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler o The Christmas Blizzard by Helen Ketterman o The Floating House by Scott R. Sanders o A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter o A Place Called Freedom by Scott Russell Sanders o Iowa o McBroom Tells TheTruth by Sid Fleischmann o Kate Shelley and The Midnight Express by Wetterer o Mystery of Pony Hollow by Lynn Hall o Kansas o The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum o Going West by Nancy Van Leeuwen o Steal Away Home by Lois Ruby o Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Kentucky o Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech o Daniel Boone by James Daugherty o Daniel Boone: Pioneer Trailblazer by Jim Hargrove o Sally Ann Thunder and Whirlwind Crockett by Steven Kellogg o Tarantula Shoes by Tom Birdseye o Louisiana o Bill and Pete To The Rescue by Tomie DePaola o Blackwater Swamp by Bill Wallace o The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman o Mama Don’t Allow by Thatcher Hurd o My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt o Maine o Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume o Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare o One Morning in Maine by Robert McClosky o Blueberries for Sal by Robert McClosky o Time of Wonder by Robert McClosky o Calico Bush by Rachel Field o Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter and Connie Roop o Maryland o By The Dawn's Early Light by Steven Kroll o Count Me In by Cal Ripken o Chita’s Christmas Tree by Elizabeth Howard o Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
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o The Fox Hunt Mystery: Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene o Massachusetts o Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen o Night Raiders Along the Cape by John Waters o Make way for Ducklings by Robert McClosky o Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett o She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head by Kathryn Lasky o The First Thanksgiving by Jean Craighead George o Why We Have Thanksgiving by Margaret Hillert o An Island Far From Home by John Donahue o Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates o Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry o Anastasia at Your Service by Lois Lowry o Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst by Lois Lowry o Who’s That Stepping On Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz o Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellog o Michigan o Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis o Mrs. Mack by Patricia Polacco o Keeper of the Light by Patricia Pfitsch o The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis o My Ol’ Man by Patricia Polacco o Minnesota o Tracker by Gary Paulsen o On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Betsy-Tacy by Maud Lovelace o Kirsten: An American Girl Books by Janet Shaw o Mississippi o Vicksburg Veteran by F. N. Monjo o Let The Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor o Mississippi Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor o Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor o The Well: David’s Story by Mildred Taylor o The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor o The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg by G. Clifton Wisler o Goodbye, Charles Lindbergh by Louise Borden o The Haunted Cabin Mystery: Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner o Night cry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor o Missouri
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o Sooner by Patricia Calvert o George Washington Carver by Lois Nicholson o On My Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Little House on Rocky Ridge by Roger MacBride o Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain o Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain o Montana o Wolf Stalker by Gloria Skurzynski o It Is a Good Day to Die by Herman Viola o Smoky, the Cow Horse by Will James o Max, the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick o Nebraska o Native American Doctor by Jeri Ferris o Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman o Gratefully Yours by Jane Buchanan o Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad o My Daniel by Pam Conrad o Nevada o Sarah Winnemucca by Mary Frances Morrow o Snowshoe Thompson by Nancy Levinson o Cowboy country by Ann Herbert Scott o The Runaways by Zilpha Keatley Snyder o Weird Stories from the Lonesome Café by Judy Cox o Alice Rose and Sam: a Novel by Kathryn Lasky o Chico and Dan by Harold Keith o New Hampshire o Gathering Of Days by Joan Blos o Bear That Heard Crying by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock o Miss Hickory by Carolyn Bailey o New Jersey o Battle of Trenton by Martin McPhillips o Captain Grey by Avi o Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson o Henry Reed’s Baby-Sitting Service by Keith Robertson o Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid by Walter Dean Myers o Fighting Ground by Avi o George Washington's Socks by Elvira Wooddruff o New Mexico o Cowboys by Joan Anderson
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o Carlsbad Caverns by Lewann Sotnak o And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold o Wildlife Rescue by Jennifer Dewey o Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell o Josefina: an American Girl by Valerie Tripp o New York o How Pizza Came to Queens by Dayal Khalsa o Hessian's Secret Diary by Lisa Banim o Tar Beach by Faith Ringold o Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume o The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden o The Adventures of Taxi Dog by Debra Barracca o When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest o The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds o Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat o Lyle, Lyle Crocodile by Bernard Waber o North Carolina o Wright Brothers by Russell Freedman o Who Comes With Cannons by Patricia Beatty o My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston o The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston o Meet Addy: an American Girl by Connie Porter o Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver o Michael Jordan: Star Guard by Ron Knapp o Back Home by Gloria Jean Pinkney o A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant o North Dakota o Edge of Nowhere by Lucy Sypher o Dakota Dugout by Ann Turner o On the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Sitting Bull by Herman Viola o Buffalo Before Breakfast by Mary Pope Osborne o Ohio o M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton o John Glenn by Paul Westman o Wild Willie and King Kyle Detectives by Barbara M. Joose o Lentil by Robert McClosky o Johnny Appleseed Goes A’Planting by Patsy Jensen
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o Oklahoma o Time of Hunting by Wayne Dodd o Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Smith o Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse o Where the Red Fern Grows by Winston Rawls o Red-Dirt Jessie by Anna Myers o Captain’s Command by Anna Myers o Oregon o Summer Discovery by Drew Carson o A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary o A Frontier Fort on the Oregon Trail by Scott Stedman o Wagon Train 911 by Jamie Gilson o Pennsylvania o Christmas Cookie Tree by Ruth Hershey Irion o Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli o The Winter of Red Snow (Dear America) by Christina Gregory o The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz o What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? by Jean Fritz o Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine C. Logan by Mary Pope Osborne o The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous o Rhode Island o Something Upstairs by Avi o Nickommoh! by Jackie French Koller o The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle o The Mill by David Macaulay o Christmas Tree Farm by Sandra Jordan o Kerry Hill Casecrackers Series by Peggy Nicholson and John F. Warner o Chicken Run by Ellen Weiss o Finding Providence: the Story of Roger Williams by Avi o South Carolina o Cast Two Shadows by Ann Rinaldi o Hurricane Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner o The Secret of Gumbo Grove by Eleanora E. Tate o The Keeping Room by Anna Myers o I Thought My Soul Would Rise Up and Fly: The Diary of Patsy by Joyce Hansen o The Girl Who Ate Chicken Feet by Sandy Richardson o South Dakota o First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac
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o The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder o A Dinosaur Named Sue: the Find of the Century by Fay Robinson o A Dinosaur Named Sue: the Story of the Colossal Fossil by Patricia Relf o Driving Lessons by Catherine Dexter o Tennessee o Davy Crockett by Anne Ford o Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs o Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley by Marguerite Henry o Tennessee Trailblazers by Patricia and Frederick McKissack o Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni o Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull o Sequoyah’s Gift by Janet Klausner o Oprah Winfrey: Television Star by Steven Otfinoski o When the Whippoorwill Calls by Candice Ransom o Al Gore by Rebecca Stefoff o Daniel’s Duck by Clyde Robert Bulla o A Band of Angels: a Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers by Deborah Hopkinson o Texas o Holes by Louis Sachar o Armadillo Rodeo by Jan Brett o Hank, the Cow Dog by John Erickson o Old Yeller by Fred Gipson o Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola o Search for the Shadowman by Joan Lowery Nixon o The White Stallion by Elizabeth Shub o Utah o Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald o Hostage by Edward Myers o The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald o Vermont o Soup by Robert Newton Peck o Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martin o Soup and Me by Robert Newton Peck o Soup for President by Robert Newton Peck o Soup’s Hoop by Robert Newton Peck o A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck o The Canada Geese Quilt by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock o Virginia
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o Promise Quilt by Candice Ransom o Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson o Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry o George Washington’s Breakfast by Jean Fritz o Journal of James Edward Pease by Jim Murphy o The Relatives Came by Cynthis Rylant o The Twin in the Tavern by Barbara B. Wallace o Felicity: an American Girl by Valerie Tripp o When Will This Cruel War be Over by Barry Denenberg o Washington o Turtle People by Brenda Guiberson o Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm o Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helens by Patricia Lauber o The Last Man's Reward by David Patneaude o West Virginia o Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor o Saving Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor o Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor o Missing May by Cynthia Rylant o Hound Heaven by Linda Oatman High o Wisconsin o Rascal by Sterling North o Little House in the Big Woods by Laura I. Wilder o Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink o Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright o Wyoming o Yellowstone by Carol A. Marron o Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie DePaola o My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara o Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner o Red Dog by Bill Wallace www.nea.org/50-state-booklist.html This list was compiled by the National Education Association 2013-2015. By Erin McQuiston of LMS Grimshaw Elementary School in LaFayette, New York, and Donna McCrory, a librarian at Westside Elementary School in Westmoreland, Tennessee.
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